CIO Insight Staff

Twitter has made it clear it wants to add analytics capabilities for its eventual paid accounts, and the microblog took a step in that direction June 10 by snapping up Smallthought Systems. Twitter acquired the startup for Trendly, which Twitter analytics lead Kevin Weil described as a “tool that helps Websites distinguish signal from noise […]

Hewlett-Packard is partnering with video conferencing software maker Vidyo to expand the collaboration capabilities of its Halo telepresence products. HP will begin offering desktops and other devices integrated with Vidyo’s VidyoConferencing software. Through the partnership, which was announced June 9, HP will integrate Vidyo’s VidyoConferencing software into HP PCs and other products to offer high-definition […]

Microsoft issues a security advisory in response to the publication by a Google employee of attack code for a zero-day vulnerability affecting Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. The vulnerability, uncovered by Google engineer Tavis Ormandy, affects “the Windows Help and Support Center function that is delivered with Windows XP and Windows Server 2003,” Microsoft […]

An impressive array of Internet communications and technology companies, including Google, Intel, Microsoft, Cisco and Verizon, join up to form the Broadband Internet Technical Advisory Group (BITAG or TAG), which will work together to find consensus on issues relating to net neutrality. Participants in the initial founding efforts for organization expressed their desire that the […]

BP, which unleashed the worst oil spill in U.S. history in the Gulf of Mexico, has purchased key search terms from Google, Bing and Yahoo to ensure that searchers see its efforts to help however it can in the catastrophe it created. BP admitted to paying for search keywords so its response Website would rank […]

The Small Business NSS 300 Series consists of two-bay, four-bay and six-bay desktop network storage units and provides small business users with a single system that comes with preinstalled business applications. Cisco quietly introduced its first storage hardware products, the NSS2000 and NSS3000 units, in spring 2009. Much development has ensued since. On June 9, […]

The hardware and software maker unveils two new Dell EqualLogic storage arrays, two PowerVault storage arrays, two PowerEdge blade servers, a PowerEdge rack-mount server, and a new series of Juniper Networks-built PowerConnect switching/routing gateways. The Round Rock, Texas-based hardware and software maker unveiled two new Dell EqualLogic storage arrays, two PowerVault storage arrays, two PowerEdge […]

Microsoft hopes it will complete the Bing-powered takeover of Yahoo’s backend search later this year, according to a Microsoft executive speaking at an investor conference June 9, although complications could delay that transition until early 2011. Those statements correspond with earlier blog postings by both companies’ representatives. Microsoft and Yahoo likely hope that their 10-year […]

The iPhone 4 is scheduled to hit store shelves on June 24. But before that happens, customers will need to evaluate if Apple’s new device is really for them. Take a look at 10 things worth considering before deciding if the iPhone 4 is really the right purchase. If consumers wanted to be able to […]

Cisco officials are preparing a corporate collaboration platform that combines the various aspects of social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace with enterprise-level security and policy control and business applications. Cisco is expected to talk more about Quad at the Enterprise 2.0 show next week in Boston. Cisco Systems officials are getting ready to launch […]

Adobe is readying a fix for a security bug being targeted by attackers. A patch addressing the issue on Windows, Mac, Linux and Solaris machines is expected to come within the next few days. In an advisory June 4, Adobe warned users that a vulnerability affecting Adobe Reader, Flash Player and Acrobat was actively being […]

But there are also some features lacking from the iPhone 4. And although they won’t get the kind of attention that all the additions will, they are just as important to understanding what Apple’s latest smartphone is all about. It’s also worth noting that Apple has once again left consumers wanting a bit more if […]